Month: July 2012

I'm not on tumblr, so had missed this post on PoC in medieval Europe. It's one of those things that's so very right in concept and not quite there in execution--there should definitely be more attention paid to non-white populations in medieval Britain, Scandinavia, and western Europe, but the evidence they're using here is sparse …

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is pleased to announce our sponsored session for the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, which will be held from 9-12 May 2013: Wounds, Torture and the Grotesque The subjects of wounds and torture have become increasingly popular in medieval scholarship, while the grotesque has been of perennial …

Yesterday, a very old Welsh manuscript came home. (Or at least, was marked to come home.) This is exciting! There aren't that many medieval Welsh manuscripts of any kind out there--the Vikings take a lot of blame for this, what with the pillaging and burning, but actually most of it was the weather. Nothing ruins …